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Friday, October 22, 2010

Amazing Electron Microscope Shots

Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures
All these pictures are from the book ' Microcosmos', created by Brandon Brill from London. This book includes many scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items. These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with the naked eye.
01 — A wood or heathland Ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip
 
02 — The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip
 
03 — Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin
 
04 — The surface of a strawberry
 
05 — Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue
 
06 — Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells
 
07 — The nylon hooks and loops of velcro
 
08 — Household dust which includes long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, plant and insect remains
 
09 —The weave of a nylon stocking
 
10 — The end of the tongue (proboscis) of a hummingbird hawkmoth
 
11 — The head of a mosquito
 
12 — A human head louse clinging to a hair
 
13 — The eight eyes (two groups of four) on the head of a Mexican red-kneed tarantula
 
14 — Cut hairs and shaving foam between two razor blades
 
15 — Cigarette paper
 
16 — The corroded surface of a rusty metal nail
 
17 — The head of a Romanesco cauliflower
 
18 — The fungus Aspergillus fumigatus
 
19 — Mushrooms spores
 
20 — A clutch of unidentified butterfly eggs on a raspberry plant
 
21 — Fimbriae of a Fallopian tube
 
 22 — A daisy bud
 
23 — Calcium phosphate crystal
 
 24 — The shell of a Foraminiferan
 

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